IDOLATRY "The inhabitants of Kanem are idolatrous Sudan. It is said that there exists in those parts a clan descended from the Umayyads, who took refuge there when they were persecuted by Abbasids.

Certainly, oral and musical traditions connect Kanem-Borno (by Lake Chad) with the Hausas ... (The Fulbe are nomadic people who today travel through much of northern West Africa.) These were mounted ...